Tony Hawk skating @ the Brooklyn Banks, 2025 📍
The NYCxDesign Festival is hosting is hosting a public presentation and discussion about the upcoming remodeling of Brooklyn Borough Hall. It looks like it’s mainly concerning the parking lot-adjacent zone by the Shake Shack, not the main plaza we all skate, which was renovated in 2017. It is on Thursday, May 15 @ 6 P.M. at 209 Joralemon Street. More info here.
Tech lord Jeremy Murray has a new, mostly New York part out on Free. Fakie shuv fakie manny hardflip out on C-Benches has to be on the shortlist for most insane things done at that spot.
“You’re searching for music, and music starts to sound like nothing to you. Every song sounds the same. You lose your fucking perception of what sound even is.” Bubble [formerly Solo] interviewed Pontus Alv and Sirus F Gahan about making the last Polar video with the “guy [who] is the first to admit that he doesn’t even know how to fucking airwalk — to the whole team, while they wait in the middle of the road for him to land an airwalk.”
“In Silver Tin” is a high-energy New York edit by Casey Segal, full of cutty spots and shit you always walk past but never bother kicking your board at. Night line at that lil’ park on Lafayette and Grand with the eggs was dope.
The Pacific-Northwest scene platform, Adjacency Bias, dropped a 14-minute video showcasing the scene in Tacoma, Washington.
Anthony Van Engelen was on a two-hour episode of the Beyond Boards podcast (a Nigerian-owned nightclub with British bartenders in post-Soviet St. Petersburg, Russia in the mid 90s -type beat) + Curren Caples stopped by Studio E for a guest episode of The Bunt + Marius Syvanen is the latest guest on the regular season of The Bunt.
“You know in the Young Jeezy song ‘Soul Survivor’ where he says ‘Just ‘cuz we stack paper and we ball outrageous, them alphabet boys got us under surveillance?'” Yes. Yes, I do. Our friend Ian Browning wrote about skate trips with your kids, seizures, and deli sandwiches for The Stopgap.
“We just got a shipping invoice and I almost cried.” Same. Jenkem opened up their rolodex and called around asking various sources on how tariffs will affect the skate industry.
The Skate Muzik podcast linked up with Village Psychic for an episode running through their favorite #musicsupervision moments from skate videos.
All of Julien Stranger’s 411VM appearances. (This one’s a lil’ shorter.)
Loosies Corner 🚬 — A few minutes of Jack O’Grady loosies.
QS Sports Desk Play of the Week 🏀 — Of the millions of people who come here each week only to see what Play of the Week is, there are probably zero who thought it could be anything else. Jalen Brunson, game 6 for the win. Going to cut any Knicks fans currently huffing hopium a break and not give a Celtics series prediction here. Where we watching tonight?
Quote of the Week 🗣 “My dad loves Gabbers’ skating.” — Zach Baker
Still running this banger from the last Orchard video.
Loved the Jenkem piece. Interesting how foul-mouthed and boorish two of the California interviews were, compared to their sanguine inland colleagues. Of course the “Chinese manufacturers” only speak on condition of anonymity
Does that mean the sports desk expects a Celtics sweep?